Senior / Principal Transport Planner - Energy Sector

WSP's Transport Planning & Mobility team is growing. We are looking for a Senior or Principal Transport Planner to join us to support our growing range of projects across the Energy sector.

At WSP, we are shaping the future of energy in the UK and supporting the Government's commitment to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Our teams deliver significant energy projects across nuclear, onshore and offshore wind, solar and battery storage, hydrogen and carbon capture, and lead major programmes to transform electricity and gas networks. Our Transport & Mobility teams play a critical role across the full project lifecycle from early planning and consenting through design, construction and operation, ensuring schemes work effectively and deliver real benefits for local communities and businesses. We bring unrivalled expertise to secure consented schemes that are deliverable and investable.

With experience across more than 70 Development Consent Order (DCO) and Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs), this role focuses on the Energy sector and supports the delivery of the energy system that powers the UK's future.

This preferred location for this role is either Birmingham, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, Newcastle, or Southampton. If you would like an alternative office, please contact to discuss options.

In this Senior / Principal Transport Planner role focused on the Energy sector, you will be responsible for:

• Undertaking Transport Statements, Transport Assessments, Environmental Statement Transport Chapters, Construction Traffic Management Plans and Travel Plans, including participation in Client and Local Authority scoping discussions.
• Leading technical discussions around the accessibility of project/construction sites for a wide range of modes and articulating the impacts and mitigations required to support planning approvals.
• Working in a multi-disciplinary environment and collaborating with adjacent disciplines such as noise, air quality, ecology and highway teams.
• Being flexible and upskilling to enable work across other transport workstreams such as communications and engagement, to support a sustainable workflow for the local team.
• Working in a collaborative client/consultant environment and representing our values when delivering for clients.
• Keeping up to date with relevant standards and policies; raising WSP's profile by networking and occasionally attending conferences.
• Ensuring projects are delivered to budget, programme, and required technical standards.

To find out more about our Transport Planning business follow the link below:

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate

• Experience of Scoping Reports, Transport Assessments and Environmental Statement Transport Chapters.
• Experience of delivering transport planning projects and knowledge of relevant guidelines and standards.
• Familiarity with Local Authority Transport Plans and Strategies would be beneficial, as would experience in transport feasibility studies, option assessment reports and providing inputs into transport related business cases.
• Strong numerical, spatial, and analytical skills and excellent working knowledge of MS Office tools.
• Ability to produce project reports, including technical documents to a high technical standard.
• Ability to communicate technical arguments to technical and non-technical clients, and present outputs from studies to a range of audiences.
• Knowledge of current transport policy at sub-regional, regional and national level.

Don't quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.

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